## TELEGRAM

Source: PSS vol 50

TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE EASTERN FRONT

Issue the same directive
through the Central Committee

Revolutionary Military Council of the Eastern Front

To Lashevich, Yurenev, Gusev, Rosengolts,
Smirnov, Muralov

Grave deterioration near Petrograd and a breakthrough in the south compel us to withdraw yet more troops from your front.

There is no alternative. You must transition to more revolutionary military work, breaking with established practice. Mobilize the entire population aged 18 to 45 in the front-line zone, assigning them the task of seizing the nearest major factories, such as Motoviliha, Minyar, promising to discharge them once they have taken these objectives, assigning two or three men to each rifle, calling upon them to drive Kolchak from the Urals. Mobilize 75 percent of Party and trade union members.

There is no other way out; you must transition to work in a revolutionary manner. Discuss this in part together with Kamenev*, how to carry it out, and report on what measures you are undertaking.

Lenin

Written June 9, 1919

First published January 21,
1937 in the newspaper *Pravda* No. 21

Printed from the manuscript